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2016-10-02 -Lurid Crime Tales-

In Baltimore, the Mayor finally throws Marilyn Mosby under the bus

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Posted by Fred 2016-10-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 in thr NYT piece Mosby says the riots were the result of Mayor's misinformation and then gives as an example of the misinformation, the fact that the mayor said the police vehicle Freddy Grey's was in stopped 3 times when it actually stopped 4 or 5 times. That's such a trivial piece of misinformation, it implies Mosby had no legitimate complaint. Of course the Mayor did give the police the order to let the mob destroy stuff but Mosby didn't bring that up.

Posted by lord garth 2016-10-02 00:55|| 2016-10-02 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Similar bullshit is going down in Tulsa.

They're prosecuting an officer for shooting (once, not a dozen times) a criminal who was not responding to lawful orders and who reached into their vehicle (thus triggering the shooting by the officer).

Fuck the victim--the officer has a right to go home at night. I can't believe that there hasn't been more support for her.

Posted by Crusader 2016-10-02 01:33|| 2016-10-02 01:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Mosby appears to be done...

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Why do poor professionals keep getting high level positions?

Posted by Crusader 2016-10-02 01:35|| 2016-10-02 01:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Why do poor professionals keep getting high level positions?

What is Affirmative Action ?

Posted by Besoeker 2016-10-02 01:39|| 2016-10-02 01:39|| Front Page Top

#5 What is Affirmative Action?

Creating evidence that disadvantaged groups deserve to be so by promoting their worst members?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-10-02 07:32|| 2016-10-02 07:32|| Front Page Top

#6 They're prosecuting an officer for shooting (once, not a dozen times) a criminal who was not responding to lawful orders and who reached into their vehicle (thus triggering the shooting by the officer).

Careful Crusader, I've seen that video several times and the windows were closed, no way he was reaching in. Also she had backup there that was going for his taser. There were several people yelling/screaming at the guy and it is quite possible that they were yelling conflicting things.

It looks to me that the woman cop panicked. She supposedly had drug recognition training and thought the man was on PCP and was afraid for her life.

I think this one will take a while to sort out.

Posted by AlanC 2016-10-02 07:59|| 2016-10-02 07:59|| Front Page Top

#7 mosby and rawlings-blake did not get to their current positions via affirmative action

that would be understandable

actually they were elected - Mosby won the Dem nomination for State's attorney for Baltimore which in a one party town is all you need

Rawlings-Blake was also elected

Posted by lord garth 2016-10-02 10:32|| 2016-10-02 10:32|| Front Page Top

#8 ...were they elected upon their record of performance (in another word 'merit') in public service or elsewhere (not inclusive of party apparatus)?

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-10-02 10:56|| 2016-10-02 10:56|| Front Page Top

#9 ....mosby and rawlings-blake did not get to their current positions via affirmative action

Neither have enough sense to poor piss from a boot. Affirmative Action became a reality for them long before public office.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-10-02 11:30|| 2016-10-02 11:30|| Front Page Top

#10 Prosecutorial misconduct. Should throw her in jail.

Posted by newc 2016-10-02 19:20|| 2016-10-02 19:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Slightly off topic. I got shot through my helmet 1969. Flattened a piece of my skull. Infantry, no blood, you're fine. Many years later, I start having seizures. A first class civ hospital finally does MRI. Serious damage. They send me to the VA hospital with a DVD of the MRI. A clearly AA doc takes my DVD, brings it HOME, and loses it. That was 2010. New doc, sees damage on new MRI, calls it. 6 years to get it right. AA. Is real. Now you know why I am off.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2016-10-02 22:08|| 2016-10-02 22:08|| Front Page Top

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